Since the Bank of England reduced its base lending rate to an historically low 2% on Thursday UK media commentary has been dominated by a ‘will they, won’t they’ analysis of which banks are planning to pass on the full value of the 1% cut to their mortgage customers and which are not. At the [...]
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Money (that’s what I want)…
Posted in Banking, Credit Crunch, Economy, Edelman, Hedge Funds, Media, Public Relations, tagged Banking, Edelman, Mortgage rates on 7 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Suspicious minds…
Posted in Banking, Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Public Relations, Reputation, tagged Cedric Brown, Clinton Manning, Daily Mirror, HBoS, News of the World, Public Relations, Sunday Mail on 10 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is no situation so bad that can’t be made even worse with a “lavish staff blowout” as yesterday’s News of the World front page story about HBoS’s Annual Star Gala event, which took place in Edinburgh last week, and the Sunday Mail’s exclusive about the bank’s planned December event in Birmingham for 1,500 mortgage [...]
I heard it through the grapevine…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Reputation, tagged BBC, Credit Crunch, FT, ITN, Observer, Recession on 16 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
The semi-nationalisation of a UK banking sector brought to its knees by a sustained collapse in trust and the rapid development of an unstoppable wave of negative (and possibly malicious) sentiment highlights the fact that this is the first recession of the digital age. For several years the NGO sector has led the way in [...]
Some guys have all the luck…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Economy, Media, Reputation, tagged BBC, churnalism, Flat Earth News, Nick Davies, Robert Peston on 15 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At times over the last couple of weeks it’s felt like Robert Peston, the BBC’s business editor, has generated as many headlines as the credit crunch with which his name has become almost synonymous. “The most powerful business journalist I have known in my lifetime” said Stephen Glover in the Independent at the weekend, while [...]
